New York State Bans Heating With Firewood This Fall?

[Itslay90]

Wood Stove And Fireplace Ban Looms In New York State

Heating and cooking with gas may also be a thing of the past soon!

wyrk.com

What’s your input ?

 

[kennyp2339]

Pretty sure thats an old article

 

[begreen]

The station is trying to catch eyeballs and/or stir the pot. The article says:

"The State is not considering legislation that would ban wood burning."

 

[Itslay90]

The station is trying to catch eyeballs and/or stir the pot. The article says:

"The State is not considering legislation that would ban wood burning."

Yeah, I think if they ever tried that, I think a lot of people will fight it

 

[Dix]

Arrest me.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

There’s very little chance they could ban wood burning in the north country. There isn’t the infrastructure to supply all the oil, kero, propane and electricity that’d be needed. It’d take years to build it out.

 

[begreen]

It's not happening. The article title is click-bait.

 

[ohlongarmisle]

It's not happening. The article title is click-bait.

And if it was, try enforcing it.

 

[Todd]

My input is more education less regulation

 

[bholler]

My input is actually read the article not just the headline

 

[begreen]

They know that most people don't get past the headline. The intent of the headline is obviously to play on a bandwagon fallacy that big guvmit is out to get your _____ (fill in the blank). It's an intentional red-herring and false dilemma - the worst kind of journalism, if one could even call it that.

 

[guylavoie]

Some places are restricting wood stove and fireplace use. In the city I'm in (Laval, a suburb of Montreal in Canada) wood burning appliances that emit more than 7.5 mg of particles per hour will be banned as of 2025, and any new (not registered as of fall of 2021) needs to meet 2.5 mg of particles or less per hour. Last year I bought a new Drolet Escape 1800 wood stove (great stove btw!) in anticipation of this.

 

[begreen]

Indeed, there have been burning restrictions in problem areas, especially for urban areas that get temperature inversions trapping the smoke at ground level. That's different from the innuendo of the linked article.